Mosquito-Malaria Hypothesis

over our food or drowns itself in our drink, the gnat that buries its lancet in our veins, the bed-bug that attacks the uncleanly during the slumbers of the night, the wasp and the bee that thrust us with their stings?are all transporters, injectors or introducers of germ life. "My reasons for affirming this are briefly comprised in the statement that I have never known a person suffer from malarial fever that had not at one time or other been stung by gnats or been the resident of a region containing these pests; and that anyone can appreciate the too palpable tilthiness of the fly, feeding, crawling, rioting and breeding in the loathsome repulsiveneas of refuse, offal, and decaying abominations of every conceivable kind ; then alighting on our victuals or on our persons to trail his defilement over our absorptive epidermis " (pp. 31, 32). "XII. The exclusion of house-flies; the utilization of natural enemies.